Composition of sedimentary material from the bottom and the area surrounding the Lake Untersee, East Antarctica

• Main Authors: Levitan, Mikhail A, Girin, Yury P, Luksha, V L, Kubrakova, I V, Roshchina, I A, Sattler, Birgit, Tyutyunnik, O A, Chudetsky, MYu
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2011
• Subjects: Archive of Ocean Data; ARCOD; Anuchin Glacier; East Antarctica; Untersee; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.811555; https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.811555

This paper presents data on geographic and geologic conditions of modern sedimentation in the Lake Untersee, the largest lake in the East Antarctica. Geochemical and sedimentation data indicate that the leading mechanism supplying aluminosilicate sedimentary material to the surface layer of bottom s...